Tom Campbell (California politician)

Tom Campbell (14 August 1952-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-CA 12) from 3 January 1989 to 3 January 1993, succeeding Ernie Konnyu and preceding Tom Lantos, and from CA 15 from 12 December 1995 to 3 January 2001, succeeding Norman Mineta and preceding Mike Honda.

Biography
Tom Campbell was born in Chicago, Illinois on 14 August 1952, and he worked as a law clerk and a lawyer. He became a Republican during college, and Ronald Reagan appointed him as Director of the Bureau of Competition in the Federal Trade Commission in 1981, serving until 1983. That year, Campbell became a law professor at Stanford Law School. In 1988, he was elected to the US House of Representatives from California's 12th district, which represented his new home in Campbell, California. He was a moderate Republican, and he was a social liberal (strongly supporting abortion and gay rights) and a fiscal conservative. He left the US Congress in 2001, having failed in his attempt to win a seat in the US Senate. From 2011 to 2016, he was a Dean of the Chapman University School of Law.